"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar explosion — or any other type of normal stellar explosion." When you purchase ...

From planet-scorching stellar outbursts to cataclysms so powerful they shiver the very fabric of spacetime, these are some of the biggest blasts our cosmos has to offer ...

Twinkle, twinkle, little star. How I wonder what you, wait a minute, why are you twinkling so much? Um, guys, that's no ...

This newly discovered explosion from the dawn of time is helping scientists map the chemical evolution of the first galaxies.

Solar storms are eruptions that release some of the energy stored in the sun's strong magnetic field. These can create ...

Theologians, historians and astronomers have debated the Biblical story for centuries. "The Adoration of the Magi" by Guiseppe Chiari (1654-1727). The Virgin Mary, seated on the left and turned to the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has picked up the light from a massive star that exploded about a billion years after the birth of the universe ...

It is theoretically possible for a particularly massive star to collapse in on itself to form a black hole rather than ...

An exploding tree claim has gone viral as the U.S. brace for an Arctic blast that will send temperatures plunging, triggering ...

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An extremely early Type II supernova explosion, named after the Titan goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, occurred just 1 ...

Astronomers at Michigan State University and the University of Michigan have teamed up on research that's taken the highest-resolution images to date of star explosions called novae (the plural of ...